ENVIRO CRAZE WATCH:Gore: human species in a race for its life

"There's an African proverb that says,'If you want to go quick, go alone.If you want to go far, go together.' We have to go far quickly,"former Vice President Al Gore told a packed, rapt house at the Benedict Music Tent Wednesday.With many scientists pointing to a window of less than 10 years to moderate the effects of global warming, he said, meaningful change is still possible, but "It is a race."The size of the climate problem?Worldwide atmospheric carbon has jumped from 280 to 383 parts per million in the last century;the polar icecaps are melting three times faster than anyone's direst prediction;
China is on the verge of surpassing the United States for greenhouse gas emissions;bark beetles and wildfires are sweeping across Western forests; temperatures are climbing, sea levels rising, glaciers vanishing.By some estimates,humans must pull 30 gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere to have a shot at reversing such effects."What we're facing worldwide really is a planetary emergency,"Gore said."I'm optimistic,but we're losing this battle badly."Gore, interviewed by business luminary John Doerr,spoke at the Aspen Institute's Greentech Innovation Network summit.a gathering of world innovators hoping to boost the development of green technologies."The habitability of this planet for human beings really is at risk,"he said.
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PS:While I was nibbling into my big 3lb.extra lean beef BLT super special,I read this and I thought it was extremely funny and entertaining for casual reading.
It never ceases to amaze me how some "superstar-scientists-wanna-bees"can "lecture" a bunch of people on "nothing".I guess the solution to the "Al Gore's Global Warming Planetary Emergency" should be for human beings to stop breathing-ergo-cease to exist...I wonder if he wants to be volunteer number one.....Got to go now to get some pickles....
As in the days of Noah...